Tobacco industry to fund exhaustive study on lung health
The Tobecco Institute research committee will study human and animal effects of tobacco in six areas. Dr. Clarence Cook Little chairs the effort, aiming to clarify links between smoking and lung cancer and heart disease. Research spans medical centers, animal testing, tissue analysis, population surveys, and continuous smoke supply development.
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Tojeces Industry
Wee
Clarence Cook Little
Bar Harbor
Little
United States
Canada
Woman wins Italy trip from essay inspired by son’s letters
Vancouver Mrs. Elizabeth Findlay, 53, earned a 10 day trip to Italy as second prize in an essay contest about visiting Italy. Her son Trooper James D. Findlay of Lord Strathcona'sHorse is buried in Cassino after dying May 25, 1944 in the Rome advance. She hopes to see his grave and sights he described, though she entered on impulse after reading of the contest. Her 11 grandchildren cheer her potential journey.
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Vancouver
Elizabeth Findlay
Italy
Findlay
Lkée
South
Tpr
James D. Findlay
Lord St
Heavy Fire Losses Highlight Need for Caution
Statistics show 55,000 to 65,000 fires reported yearly, about 150 to 170 daily. Annual losses range from 65 to 80 million dollars with a five year average near 75 million, underscoring the need for careful analysis to reduce waste and casualties.
More babies during 1953
Ottawa reports a record birth year in 1953 with 416,825 births up from 402,527 in 1952 and a birth rate rising to 28.2 per 1000. Infant deaths fell to 14,764, a record low 35 per 1000 live births, and maternal deaths at childbirth dropped to 24, well below earlier years.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Helpful Hints on Brushes, Combs, and Plant Care
We describe selecting brushes with medium stiff bristles to avoid scalp injury and warn against wire brushes. A comb with smooth blunt-pointed teeth set apart is advised. For watering plants while away, place bricks in a tub, elevate pots, and fill with water to moisten bricks. Fine lace cleaning uses calcined magnesia between papers under a heavy book for three days.
Answers to Quick Quiz Highlights Historical Facts
The quiz covers distances just over two moons and about 1,200 miles. It lists Laurier, Borden, Meighen, King, Bennett, St. Laurent as key figures. It notes manufacturing and explains telegraph cables rest on the sea floor rather than being suspended shore to shore, often miles deep.
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Laurier, Borden, Meighen, King, Bennett, St. Laurent
Britain Counts Dollar Prospects With Vickers Viscount Sales
Britain reports 154 Viscount turboprops sold for about 44 million dollars with one third to dollar countries. Big orders include Trans-Canada Airlines to receive mid October first delivery and Capital Airlines optioning 37 more. Viscount seats 40 to 59 passengers over 200 to 1,100 miles. British Airways and other carriers show continued demand as Britain touts gas turbine and turbo prop designs and profit from Viscount operations. Designer George Edwards asserts five year lead in gas turbine airliners and UK capability.
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Britain
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Capital Airlines
British West Indies
Africa
India
Iraq
Venezuela
Australia
New York
Chicago
United States
British European Airways
George Edwards
Supersonic Nike missile tests planned for January
The Department of National Defence and the U S Defense Department announce Operation Frost Jet a winter test of the Nike supersonic guided missile in Canada during January and February 1955. Canadian Army personnel trained at Fort Bliss Texas will operate the weapon with support from U S technicians at Fort Churchill Manitoba joint proving ground.
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Ottawa
United States Army
Canada
Department of National Defence
U.S. Department of Defence
Washington
U.S. Army
Fort Bliss
Texas
Fort Churchill
Man
U.S
Demand for blood worms fuels a $100000 industry
The blood worm harvest supports about 100 workers from here to Yarmouth 12 miles away. Found up to Nova Scotia, worms fetch 75 cents a dozen in the United States while diggers earn 5 to 8 dollars daily. The delicate, short lived bait must be handled quickly with low tide harvests limited to four to five hours daily.
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Yarmouth
New England
Massachusetts
Nova Scotia
United States
Boston
World Wheat Conference Planned Amid IWC Actions
The International Wheat Council on October 14 1955 in London approved planning a world wheat conference to broaden membership. Italy was invited to join the International Wheat Agreement which expires in July 1956. The IWC ended its 16th session with a communique directing preparatory work for a conference to negotiate renewal of the agreement. It noted lower harvests in North America and Canada and projected higher wheat demand, while surplus exportable wheat remained high awaiting gradual relief.
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London
International Wheat Council
Italy
IWC
IWA
North America
Canada
Apples Make Cows Seem Drunk in New York Farm Tale
In ERIN New York farmer Francis Britenbaker reports 20 cows recovering from a changeover fed on apples blown into a meadow. Emma Tolbert says the cows stagger and struggle as they react to the apple juice, described by H E Alexander as causing rapid digestion that makes the cows act drunk.
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Erin
N.Y
Francis Britenbaker
Emma Tolbert
Smile of the Week classic dad reply on radio remark
A disgruntled father humorously rebuts his daughter's praise of a radio show by recalling a bizarre collision between a milk can truck and a freight car carrying live ducks. The exchange captures a dry, absurd wartime humor tone.
Quick Canadia Quiz trivia questions from a newspaper page
A trivia column asks six men who have served as Prime Minister since 1900. It queries the leading industry employing a quarter of Canadian workers, the Canadian portion of the Alaska Highway, the share of Ottawa’s 4.5 billion tax income from individual income taxes, and how many of Canada’s 32 million families receive monthly allowance cheques. Answers appear in another column.
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Canada
Alaska
Ottawa
Canadian labor force in agriculture and manufacturing
About 15 percent of Canada's total labor force is directly employed in agriculture and about 26 percent is directly employed in manufacturing.
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Canada
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